No one would call Vladimir Putin weak. As the undisputed popular head of an energy-rich, nuclear-tipped state, he is certainly a powerful man.<\/p>\n
For the second year running, Forbes has voted\u00a0the Russian president as the world\u2019s most powerful person, followed by U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n
Forbes’\u00a0annual ranking of the World\u2019s 72 Most Powerful People (one for every 100 million people on the planet) is based on voting by a panel of FORBES editors, who consider financial resources, scope and use of power, and the number of people they impact.<\/p>\n
Forbes insists that it\u00a0is “an evaluation of hard power” and their list wields the kind of power that shapes and bends the world, and moves people, markets, armies and minds.<\/span><\/p>\n Russia\u2019s president\u00a0remarked recently on the futility of attempts to rewrite history and \u201crecode society\u201d during his meeting with historians and history teachers. The president visited the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia and its Civil War (1918-1922) rarities exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n He reminded historians that history is a science and not merely a political tool.<\/p>\n Obama has had to\u00a0face\u00a0a humiliating week\u00a0after\u00a0Democrats lost control of the Senate and suffered big losses in the House and governors’ races across the\u00a0US as a result of his unpopular policies.<\/p>\n Rather than accept the election results as a repudiation of his own administration, the president said voters were disenchanted with Washington as a whole, perhaps explaining the Russian leader’s worldwide\u00a0popularity.<\/p>\n American soft power has been eroded by costly wars against\u00a0former friendly allies.<\/p>\n Obama’s advisers acknowledged that Tuesday’s outcome was far worse than what they expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No one would call Vladimir Putin weak. As the undisputed popular head of an energy-rich, nuclear-tipped state, he is certainly a powerful man. For the second year running, Forbes has voted\u00a0the Russian president as the world\u2019s most powerful person, followed by U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Forbes’\u00a0annual ranking of the World\u2019s … Continue reading “Forbes: Putin the world’s most powerful man”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[593,10496,10495,66,67,1808],"class_list":["post-16751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-barack-obama","tag-forbes","tag-most-powerful-man","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16758,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751\/revisions\/16758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}